Increasing The Well-being Of Iraqi Widows

Marginalized and condemned to silence in a patriarchal society, many Iraqi widows and their children live under the poverty line, whether relative or absolute.

When the IDFN campaign for increasing the well-being of widows was launched, the focus was on improving access to State pensions. Soon afterwards, emphasis was also placed on increasing opportunities in the workforce available to widows and eliminating discrimination by changing the way society viewed them.

Widows represent the largest group of poor people in Iraqi society. Including their children, the number of people directly impacted by widows’ pensions is probably close to 8 or 9 million people. Some 95% of widows never remarry and are faced, all of their lives, with double discrimination as widows and as women.

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The Tammuz Organization: events and activities to help widows and orphans in Babil.

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